1881, Édouard Manet, The Milliner (or At the Milliner's) -- Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
From the museum label: The Milliner, painted shortly before Edouard Manet's death, displays a theme frequently found in his art — the customs and costumes of Parisian women. The title suggests the subject's profession as a maker and seller of hats in the female-lead millinery trade integral to France's booming global fashion industry at the end of the nineteenth century. Manet's frank depictions of modern women, often in informal moments, astonished a French public accustomed to an academic style that represented female models as mythological or historical subjects.
1881, Édouard Manet, The Milliner (or At the Milliner's) -- Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
From the museum label: The Milliner, painted shortly before Edouard Manet's death, displays a theme frequently found in his art — the customs and costumes of Parisian women. The title suggests the subject's profession as a maker and seller of hats in the female-lead millinery trade integral to France's booming global fashion industry at the end of the nineteenth century. Manet's frank depictions of modern women, often in informal moments, astonished a French public accustomed to an academic style that represented female models as mythological or historical subjects.